Monday, November 15, 2010

Western Rifle Shooters AssociationA) The United States Constitution says what it means and means what it says. The Commerce Clause and General Welfare are not license for Congress to violate a single articulated power described in Article I, Section 8 or elsewhere. No vote shall be cast on any legislation without obvious AND EXPLICITLY-STATED Constitutional Authority. B) ...shall not be infringedsays what it means and means what it says. ALL FEDERAL STATUTES AND REGULATIONS WHICH, WHEN READ ACCORDING TO THE PLAIN MEANING OF THEIR CONTENTS, INFRINGE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ON ANY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT SHALL BE IMMEDIATELY REPEALED. C) The Fourth Amendment says what it means and means what it says. No more TSA groping to fly. No more Stop & Frisk. No more PATRIOT Act tracking, tapping, snooping. THE PATRIOT ACT, AS AMENDED, SHALL BE IMMEDIATELY REPEALED. D) The proper place for Entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and FEDERALLYState-sponsored healthcare is in the respective States, and are prohibited to the Federal Government. Every American should receive a refund of all money paid into these programs, immediately. E) We support legislation to immediately de-fund and disband every extra-Constitutional DEPARTMENT AND agency within the Federal Government WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS LEGISLATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS EXPLOSIVES, AND THE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION. ALL OTHER FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SHALL SUBMIT A WRITTEN JUSTIFICATION FOR CONTINUED OPERATIONS TO THE APPROPRIATE HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS LEGISLATION. F) We support legislation to immediately end every extra-Constitutional policy and program and law currently in effect. G) We support Impeachment proceedings for Treason against politicians, bureaucrats, AND judges who are found to have violated their oath of office. H) All US Military bases around the world should be immediately closed WITHIN ONE YEAR, and ALL AMERICAN troops brought home. Any threat that may have once been posed to America from Iraq or Afghanistan has now been eliminated, and Americans should come home immediately.I) The Navy has the PRIMARY responsibility for Force Projection around the world, and the Air Force AND NAVYwillSHALLJOINTLY AND immediately BEGIN TO establish American dominanceSUPREMACY in space FROM EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON. J) Guantanamo Bay should no longer serve as a long-term prison for enemies of the United States. Those held by the American Government shall be TRIED BY A MILITARY TRIBUNAL, AND executed or released to their home country UPON FINAL JUDGMENT OF THAT PROCEEDING. K) Immediate action based on common sense is required to restore American dominance in the world as an economic power. All imports from countries that are politically hostile to America will end immediately. We do not trade with Communists, Socialists or Tyrants (except oil, see below). Imports from friendly countries must come from factories or fields that are compliant with American environmental and safety standards. These rules will motivate an immediate return to American soil of manufacturing facilities across the business spectrum WITH THE GOAL OF ELIMINATING ALL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN GLOBAL MARKETS WITHIN ONE YEAR, A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE SHALL BE ESTABLISHED AND DELIVER TO THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS A REPORT ON HOW TO ACHIEVE THAT OBJECTIVE WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF FORMATION. (editor's note: Free trade is one of the primary principles; me wanty beaucoup more Wolf ammo and milsurp parts/mags/kits from Eastern bloc countries, including the PRC) L) Energy: Federal restrictions on construction of Nuclear Power Facilities must be immediately removed. Private industry is motivated to build safe power generation facilities and will also be motivated to upgrade our TRANSMISSION infrastructure. WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS LEGISLATION, THE NAVY SHALL COMMENCE CONSTRUCTION ON 100 NUCLEAR GENERATION FACILITIES TO BE LOCATED ON MILITARY AND FORMER MILITARY FACILITIES WITHIN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, WITH ALL FACILITIES AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF COMMERCIAL POWER GENERATION TO BE COMPLETED AND COMMENCED WITHIN FOUR YEARS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS LEGISLATION. TRANSFER OF THOSE GENERATION FACILITIES FROM THE NAVY TO APPROPRIATE PRIVATE COMPANIES SHALL BE EFFECTED WITHIN TWO YEARS OF COMMENCEMENT OF COMMERCIAL GENERATION ACTIVITIES. M) WITHIN ONE YEAR, A COMPLETE AND PUBLIC AUDIT OF ALL OPERATIONS AND HOLDINGS OF AND BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM SHALL BE COMPLETED, WITH JOINT HEARINGS ON THE ABOLITION OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM TO BE COMMENCED WITHIN NINETY DAYS OF COMPLETION OF SAID AUDIT.

"BATTALION “VOSTOK”, LED BY FAMOUS CHECHEN WARLORD SULIM YAMADAYEV WAS ORGANISED FROM A FEW THOUSANDS OF CHECHEN INSURGENTS, WHO FOUGHT THE RUSSIANS IN THE REPUBLIC’S 1ST WAR FROM 1994-96, BUT CHANGED SIDES AND JOINED MOSCOW’S BATTLE AGAINST ISLAMITE MILITANTS IN THE CURRENT CONFLICT, WHICH BEGAN 1999. BASED 25 MILES EAST OF THE BOMBED OUT CAPITAL GROZNY, THE SPECIAL FORCES BATTALION IS UNDER COMMAND OF RUSSIA’S MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND CLAIMS IT’S MISSION IS TO KILL THE “SHAITANY” (DEVILS) – RADICAL ISLAMITE UNDERGROUND’ FIGHTERS AND IT’S ARAB ALLIES, WHO ARE STILL FIGHTING THE KREMLIN TROOPS. THE BATTALION HAS LOST OVER A 100 OF FIGHTERS IN THIS RUTHLESS WAR AND KILLED MORE THAN 500 INSURGENTS. “VOSTOK” WORKING METHODS ARE OFTEN CRITICIZED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS, WHICH ACCUSE “YAMADAYEVTSY” OF NUMEROUS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, EXTRAJUDICAL EXECUTIONS, ABDUCTIONS AND TORTURES OF DETAINEES AND SECRET MURDERS OF THEIR OPPONENTS."

"I was on assignment with "RUSSIAN REPORTER" magazine for 19 days in Dagestan covering Russian Special Forces. Here, on my personal site you can see the whole reportage and this is a link to the magazine website with my text and my pictures."

"AGE 9 TO 16 MORE THAN 300 KIDS IN RUSSIAN ZHUKOVSKOYE SETTLEMENT HAVE BECOME MEMBERS OF FULL-FLEDGE BOOT-CAMP, WHERE THEY'RE BEING TRAINED FOR WAR. THEIR COMMANDER - EX RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES CAPTAIN SAYS: "IF RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT KEEPS SENDING SCHOOLBOYS TO THE WAR ZONES, THERE MUST BE A PLACE, WHERE THESE KIDS WOULD BE TRAINED HOW TO SURVIVE AND KILL, BUT NOT TO BECOME CASUALTY IN THE FIRST COMBAT."

U.S Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota said Americans are seeking a halt to what she called “gangster government,” as she spoke at rally of fellow Republicans on the first day of a lame-duck session of Congress.

The most bitter disappointment, however, was Obama’s failure to conclude the widely anticipated Free Trade Agreement with South Korea. Philip Levy, a resident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, writing in Foreign Policy, called it nothing short of a “disaster.”

"Unlike ATF and other federal agencies with bad reputation, TSA is an equal-opportunity offender. They pick on the babies and they pick on retirees, they pick on pregnant women and on invalids in wheelchairs. They do so in plain view. They also seem to hire bottom of the barrel personnel, the kind of creatures who need charm lessons from skunks and who need affirmative action to be considered for hire in place of possums.

Their current efforts to offend almost every segment of the American people means they will be the test case. What will the American public do about them? This will be fun to watch with Thanksgiving and Christmas travel seasons coming up. Few people would want to drive across the country in winter to see family, so many will fly and get mistreated. What are the chances of TSA becoming the national bullseye for derision, legal and lobbying action and --- should all those fail -- direct retirement actions by concerned individuals? Nobody likes bullies or child molesters, especially those who abuse official capacity for the purpose."

This past weekend, we had the pleasure of meeting in the Ronald Reagan Building at the expense of Tea Party Patriots. We heard a call for unity from the dean of Conservatism, former Attorney General Ed Meese, and now of the Heritage Foundation. We also heard from the Hon. Ernest Istook, also of the Heritage Foundation. Tea Party Patriots invited all newly elected congress people. About 30 showed. Some did not give the courtesy of a response and no one from Pennsylvania showed! All those who did show up were impressed and pleased at what we were doing.

The purpose of this letter is to outline what Cong. Istook and the Heritage Foundation recommends and what the entire group of 200 local coordinators unanimously adopted.

Congressman Istook told us how the “game” is played in DC. He showed us how power hungry leaders over the past few decades took power away from rank and file members. It wasn’t always this way. The power grab occurs with both Republican and Democrat leaders. That’s how Pelosi dictatorially disallowed amendments and debate on Obamacare and Cap and Tax.

Istook urged us to change all this. However, it must be done this week!

You see, each party adopts its own rules. Currently, both parties control everything two ways:

1. The speaker gets to appoint a majority of the steering committee which appoints all the chairmen and gets to decide who gets what secretaries and staff, parking spaces, office spaces…you get the picture.

2. All legislation must go to the rules committee. This is where they can pack in earmarks, prohibit amendments and even prohibit debate! The speaker and leadership make all the appointments.

Here is what we and Cong. Istook recommend.

1. Each party's steering committee—not party leaders—should select all committee members and chairpersons. This includes Rules, House Administration, select and joint committees, in addition to standing committees.

2. The members of the steering committee should be elected by the rank and file members. Party leaders should not have a majority of the votes nor indirect control of the votes. Party leaders should not be allowed to run or dominate the steering committee.

3. The speaker and all leadership positions and committee chairpersons should be subject to term limits.

4. There should be a limit on the size of committees, not to exceed 50 members.

We need you to call your newly elected and returning congress people, Republican first and then Democrat. You must do it NOW because they will adopt these rules Wednesday or Thursday.

If you have any questions or reservations, now is the time to tell us about it so that we can address your concerns. Remember: next week will be too late.

"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country."--Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788=========The Fetus Resource Center (FRC)

........and ordnance for personal protection. A century later, they are prohibited any means of self-defense at all. Current laws treat Englishmen as colonial subjects were once treated, without rights. What a pity! Even Russian subjects are permitted some, admittedly poor, means of self-protections...never thought I'd see what was once a relatively free country fall so low. Yet, reading Orwell's Coming Up for Air, we can spot the beginning of the decline even prior to 1914.

Unfortunately, some parts of the US (Washington DC, Hawaii, New Jersey, Chicago, Puerto Rico and a few others) are scarcely better. At least, in the US we have the option of avoiding such locations in favor of Montana, Tennessee and other places more respectful of personal rights.

I read several London and Kipling stories over the last week. That had the effect of highlighting the improvements and the declines in the various facets of the human condition in the last century. Overall, I'd take 2006 over 1906, but certain developments haven't been to our credit.

My buddy Montieth is keeping some of the British artifacts alive, but his Bren is only a ghost of a machine gun. As we speak, thousands of Stg44s, PPSH41s and other historic artifacts are being scrapped by the US Army in Iraq. We look down on book-burners and iconoclasts of the past centuries, but the irrational fetishism and the fear of the inanimate symbols is alive and well with many people and the proxy governments they vote in."

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.